Chad Parenteau was born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island and raised in Bellingham, Massachusetts. He currently lives and works in Boston, Massachusetts.  Parenteau graduated from Framingham State College (now Framingham State University) and received an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College.  His work has been published in Amethyst Arsenic, Shampoo, Wilderness House Literary Review, The Scrambler, and Salon.  His chapbook Discarded: Poems for My Apartments was published by Červená Barva Press.

In 2012, Parenteau was featured  in the anthologies The Triumph of Poverty and Sounds of Wind: New American Lyrics (where his work was printed in both English and Albanian).   In addition to being the current host and organizer of the long-running Stone Soup Poetry reading series, he is the founder and editor of its online journal Spoonful.His book, Patron Emeritus, is forthcoming from FootHills Publishing.